Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

challenged to be soul conscious and to bring the namesof unsaved friends to the prayer meetings.Charles Spurgeon believed that one of the reasons somany were saved under his preaching was prayer. He hadprayer meetings before the preaching services and everyMonday night and on other occasions. Sometimes whenthe auditorium of the Metropolitan Tabernacle was full, agroup would remain in the downstairs prayer hall andpray during the preaching (as per e-mail from Mrs.Hannah Wyncoll, Administrative Assistant, MetropolitanTabernacle, June 2, 2000). Prayer was a very centralfocus of Spurgeon’s ministry, and the fruit of it continuesto abide a century later.Following is the testimony of two specific occasions mywife and I saw God work mightily through fasting andprayer in the country of Nepal:“Since spiritual wars are won ‘not by might nor bypower,’ it can just as truly be said souls are won ‘notby programs not by methods’ but ultimately by theSpirit of God. True, we are to put some activity intothe battle. ‘Go out into the highways and hedges,and compel them to come in...’ ‘Go ye into all theworld and preach the gospel ... baptizing ...teaching...’ There is work to be done on our part, butapart from Him, without dependence on His Spirit, allthe methods of planting and watering the seeds wesow will not produce the fruit that remains. Godgives the increase. Therefore, in order to be trulyeffective in winning the lost, we need completedependence upon God. Only the Spirit of God canbreak the power of Satan in the lives of unsavedpeople. So any idea, any program, any method isemptiness without our complete reliance on thepower of God to bring forth fruit.“Just over two years into our service on the missionfield we were having weekly meetings in our home.Wealthy, educated Hindu neighbors were attendingthese meetings very faithfully. Week after week they